Over the past few years, I’ve been working on a new podcast called ARTICLE 13.
American society is fractured across political and cultural lines. Healing will not happen quickly or easily, but will require a sustained commitment to peaceful discussion and the development of new, creative frameworks for finding common ground.
Article 13 aims to model the kind of hopeful, intelligent discourse our country needs—and to offer ways that each individual listener can start the healing, right where they are.
The name of the show is inspired by the 13th Article of Faith:
“We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul—We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.”
Our first episode looks at why Americans are losing trust in most of their major institutions, including the institutions of government and democracy. This distrust is driven in large part because Americans realize that many people in those institutions have started seeing them as a platform rather than a responsibility. We can help rebuild the institutions to which we belong — families, churches, schools, local communities — by recommitting ourselves to the people we serve within them.
The episode features some extraordinary voices, including:
You can listen to Episode 1 above, or on Apple Podcasts or Spotify:
Article 13 is produced by Maria Devlin McNair and Gavin Feller. Music is by Steve LaRosa. Art is by Charlotte Alba. You can learn more about Article 13 here.
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